To anyone out there studying Japanese, just remember that passing the JLPT should be secondary to actually learning Japanese. I have lived in Japan a long time and work in a Japanese company where I use only Japanese all day every day and also deal with interviewing and hiring people. I have met SOO MANY applicants that have JLPT N1 on their resume but when it comes to the interview, it turns out they can't speak Japanese very well at all. The JLPT only tests listening and reading, it does not fluency or speaking at all.
While I agree with the statement, when I read N1 learner's journey, they have gone alot of immersion, LN reading, a lot of vocabularies etc I believe they gain a lot from taking the test, while regarding brushing up their speaki skills also should be done after that
While I agree with what you said but for ppl who can’t travel to Japan like me or can’t afford much money on apps, JLPT is useful to teach the language as well as the basic grammar points which will help u in speaking later
Well that seems much more reasonable than fluency in a year! I have been studying for almost 3 years and I only consider myself as an advanced beginner.
@@DMK1990 Textbooks, movies, anime, music, Duolingo, online teacher, cards app! I try my best, but I have a normal life, a job, a son, and I can only spend an hour per day studying , and I think 95% of other learners have the same amount of time or less which i think makes it impossible to be fluent in a year. Not everyone can immerge 24/7, most of us learners do this as an hobby!
I started studying Japanese in lockdown and had a very strong start and I was actively learning for a bout a year then I just started learning less and less until I completely stopped. I'm currently in my last month of highscool and I already told myself that I'll be going back to Japanese since, and your video truly inspired me, I've watched A LOT of videos on "how to study in Japanese", "how I became fluent in Japanese in 6 months" etc but your video right here is probably the best I've ever seen, thank you so very much for sharing this. I hope that you continue to grow your Japanese and continue learning, have a blessed day❤️
Yeah, same I study japanese for about 6 months then suddenly I stop because student works. But planning to study again because I love Japanese culture and language is part of it.
Please, keep learning it. I met lots of foreigners in Japan who speak stunning Japanese and this is mainly because they’d started learning it at a very young age like you and because they were constant and stubborn students ;) good luck!
@@KoreKaraPodcastHi! I have a question about how you immersed yourself, when you watched shows completely in Japanese, would you turn on the English captions or go all in? And if you want to learn more than one language what would you do 🤔 Sorry for asking all these questions haha, I guess I really want to learn Japanese, Spanish and French
I guess a Taiwanese has a HUGE advantage over an English speaker or let's say an Italian (like myself): just the fact to know the original kanji is should be immensely useful when it comes to reading.
@@AlexanderNassian nah japanese is pretty much (minus korean) on its own for that one because of its grammar structure since it differs so much than how you would speak in mandarin
bro, maaaaad respect... I'm from germany, studying the language for 1 year aka 2 semesters in 副専攻 and only managed to get through the 1st genki more or less remembering everything in it but still struggling with some stuff in it that I forget... and you just rushed through that text book in like a month and that's suuuper amazing and makes me wanna study harder as well...
Congratulations! I took a Japanese class in college and have pretty much kept it on the backburner since then. You've motivated me to make a serious attempt at it again. Great editing too, btw!
4:15 I understand this, I don’t speak Japanese very well, but when I was shopping in my area I over heard some people speaking Japanese and I understood what they said exactly without having to translate it in my head, safe to say I was soooo proud
I just recently moved to Japan 12 days ago and am currently enrolled in a Japanese language school. I arrived to the country only knowing hiragana and some katakana. I’ll be here for 1 year and 3 months minimum however would rather extend my stay if possible as I want to attend university here but need to pass the N2 exam to even get close. This video has been a huge motivation for me as I feel the clock ticking down on me and being in the country has kept me motivated every day as I want to be able to hear and speak the language around me fluently. I already knew a year in language school alone wouldn’t be enough to get that far and know that immersion is the way to go but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to combine my studies with what I could do to improve outside of classes.
I think you can try to join local clubs/communities/meetups so you can immerse outside of class! I’ve definitely heard stories of people going to language school for a whole year and not getting anywhere since they mostly hung out with other foreigners. I think getting a part-time job at a restaurant for example would help too
@@KoreKaraPodcast thank you for the advice! I do have permission to work part time but the school recommends beginner class students to refrain from doing so as we need the most time to focus on learning. I did think about meetups but hadn’t considered the idea of joining a club though. Don’t know where even to begin with that 😅 Guess I’ll look into it
@@TakeAguess323 oh wow lol this comment. Yeah I’m conversational now and can manage to do daily tasks with ease and a little more now. Still not fluent by any means but from what I’ve been told numerous times my pronunciation seems to be on point. Reading and writing are my strong points. I struggle with listening comprehension but good enough to get by. Usually depends on the speed at which someone is speaking. Plus still building up vocabulary. Speaking I’d say I’m just getting better everyday at as the more I speak the easier it becomes to say something the next time around without thinking about it.
Honestly mad jealous. I keep seeing these videos of people who learn at an amazing rate and partly its because of the amount of time they have to study. I struggle to get such amount of time in as a full time worker but anyone who is a student should heed this and study your ass off while you have the opportunity. It may be hard to find the time later down the road.
@@lucasredondo4234 he group in Taiwan so he basically already knew all of the radicals already, thus over half the meanings to the existing vocabulary even if he didn't know how to properly read them he could take the kanji filled N1 exam and play a guessing game and pass.
Damn, well done man. I´m going through my japanese learning right now and have been for over 300 days now. I´m ddoing just like you menshioned, I expose myself to as much japanese conent everyday as possible such as anime, manga and J-dramas. Using Anki definetly helps me to. I often watch everything with no translation and am always choked of how much you can understand and learn through context alone. I´m definetly gonna be fluent as fast as you with only about 50 days left until the 1 year mark. I have not tested myself but I would guess that I am around N4-N3 right now and I hope to be N1 level on my 2 year mark. It´s kind of funny that this video was uploaded around the time I started learning Japanese. In the future 2 years from now when I´m 18 and in collage, I want to do an exchange year then, and am so looking forward to it, even for how scarry it can be. Thanks for for the inspiration, setting an example that it is possible and showing me that I´m on the right path.
I learned ALL hiragana and katakana in 2014 within 4 months. Then I quit altogether when I learned I had to learn Kanji. All my life I was a quitter. Thin-skinned. Well...Recently I dedicated myself to become fluent in Japanese within 1 year (like you did) and after studying for the first time in 8 years I re-learned the Hiragana within 1 week and am learning words for the first time. When I say learned I mean- I actually can see the foreign language as MY language. When you can read and write Japanese quickly (in a natural flow) THAT is when you have assimilated and know you are on the right path!
I would say I am having fun studying/learning now (which is of key importance) whereas when I first started studying in 2014 I was doing it more as a duty/necessity but my heart wasn't all in it because I was afraid! I was immature! You must relax and have fun and have faith in yourself. In 2014 I believed I was stupid/average but now I think of myself as a superior student and smart and this shift in consciousness changed how I approach study because now I jump with both feet in. 100% committed. This is key!
@@Chuugokujin it took me several months to learn hiragana too. It does not have any meaning, so it's kinda mechanical/visual memorization. At the same time, learning Kanji is easier because you can attach mnemonic to a meaning. 4 months for 1000 kanji and 2 months for hiragana and 1 month for katakana. Maybe I could have succeeded if i wrote those horrible writing drills for kana, but I would probably killed someone in the process.
You’re definitely a determined man, bravo After seeing people fully immersed in a language for years (decades) and not being able to reach anything more than a beginner level, it shows me how much focus, persistence and drive you had.
If it's decades, likely they aren't going out of their way to interact with speakers of that language like he did, or consume as much media in their target language. That's something I'm trying to get past too, I just end up watching mostly English stuff all day instead of Japanese
I tried learning Japanese before and I agree if you study for months by yourself and than hear a convo or watch and anime and you feel like you’ve learned nothing it’s a huge gut punch. I just bought my first trip to Japan next month, I hope once I return it lights a fire in me again to try and re try it. Great video
One question I have though, since you said you grew up in Taiwan, did you know how to read the Chinese characters before learning Japanese? Because I feel like this is the most time consuming part of learning Japanese for me
You're lying, even if you passed the JLPT N1 (if it's not a lie), it certainly didn't take you 1 year. In a video that you published in 2021, you said that you had already been studying Japanese with anki for 3 years.
He speaks truth. I had the same experience with other languages. Programs (like Rosetta Stone) did nothing good, I still couldn't understand other people, I couldn't even count normally. Only a full immersion into another language, culture, into another country - truly does help. It's very risky, but it's the fastest way. Then you have no other choice but either you end up in a foreign country with no money, no food, no water, and no roof above your head, or you break through and comprehend another language. English is not my first language, btw, and it is not the last either 😉 So, the guy on the video tells truth.
I'm learning English, and it literally inspired me more than any other success video. Thank you so much. I'm currently living in Australia as working holiday, I swear that I will do my best here! Anyway, thank you so much for creating such a nice video.
your english sounds great, pretty understandable, I'm sure you will polish it even further! My native language also is not english but you can see that I have a pretty good fluency level, so that's definitely possible. As he said, immersion is the key.
this is really inspiring me as im just starting to learn japanese right now. I want to live there one day and speak at least at a high school level after 20 years of my life
This is exactly my plan, I'm going to study in Japan next year on an English program and speak zero Japanese, will do Genki beforehand and learn some vocabulary but once I arrive there I will talk to as many Japanese people as I can and make japanese friends. Gonna force myself to avoid spending too much time with international students. I know some japanese people and get along very well with them since I am asian myself. When you have similar parenting and cultures it's really easy to get along with them, I personally connect very fast with asian people. This is exactly what I did to learn English, by speaking to English speaking people all day. Typing a language and speaking it IRL are totally different things, since it takes much more time at the beginning to process and come up with sentences.
I found out in June that my partner and I are moving to Japan at the beginning of next year. I really need to grind my Japanese until then to hopefully be able to have a head start. My one class a week just isn't going to cut it
I’m not sure about that bro. I know two people who became fluent in English within a year. The rest was just adding on vocabulary. In both cases, there was the element of immersion and the impossibility of surviving otherwise
can say,its possible to achieve this since this guy got the motivation since a child also he explain that his family and himself go to japan regularly and he already live in japan also everyday around him is using japanese language so safe to say he already good at it.if u want to know,even japanese themselve dont know some of kanji or advance word
日本語を勉強してくれてありがとう！私は逆に英語を勉強しています。元気をもらいました！お互い頑張りましょう！ Thanks for studying Japanese. I'm Japanese and studying English. I got much of energy studying language from you!
I'm Japanese and learning English. When I was seaching how I can learn it I found this video. I was surprised by your Japanese how amazing it is.As you said,Japanese is known as one of the most difficult language. Here's my personal question: How did you watch videos? Without subtitles or with subtitles?
Immersion in the other language and culture is the number one thing I recommend for learning a language. Getting to JLPT N1 is impressive. I did a year in high school in Japan, host family and all, it really helped. I passed easily the N5, talking wise I was much further tho. In the end it is just one of many measurements tools.
Your experience validated two important concepts in Second Language Acquisition: 1. Didactic language material (textbook stuff) vs Authentic Language material (from everyday life) 2. Speaking (output) also requires deliberate practice.
I have had a REALLY bad life (domestic violence). I recently lost my mother and since I was 08 years old I had to be an adult. As of a few months ago, I finally have gained the ability to live my life how I want. I am now in university, studying Japanese and hoping to follow in your path. I am studying Japanese anywhere from 7-8 hours a day not including tv, movies, music, etc. in full emersion. My goal is next year around this time, I want to be in Japan, giving up English and only speaking Japanese. I plan on spending the rest of my life in Japan, becoming a Japanese citizen, ethnically Japanese and making a difference in Japan to help others have a better life through software development and the money I make in my career. Thank you for this inspirational video, it has truly helped me!
Great video. Been watching your vids for 6 months but I didn't know anything about your Japanese journey. Even with Immersion, I didn't think that was possible in one year. Maybe 18 months, but not one year. Very cool.
I’m late to watching this video but really enjoyed it! I have been studying Korean on my own since February and followed the same path as you - breezed through books, immersion in content, and then (not study abroad since college was a little while ago) things really clicked for me by going to Korea even if the trip was really short. I love your idea of working towards a test. Now I’m off to Google if one exists for Korean! My next goal is to be conversational/proficient by my next trip in fall 2023. I am kdrama/tourist effective right now 😂 (public transit, ordering food, where’s the bathroom, kdrama catchphrases, etc)
I remember when I was 13 I tried learning Japanese and It toke me 2 years to learn hiragana at my own pace yeah I quit when someone told me you could learn it in a couple days 🙂
Ur japanese language journey is aweaome ! but your cinematography skills are really good 👍 I'm inspired I also want to make high quality videos like this one day !
I see your cinematography skills are high you jumped into a guitar class your obviously in shape and your room is so damn neat I'm curious about your daily habits and how you have such productivity !
This video inspired me to practice more Japanese thanks :D learning Japanese is hard but I still think it’s fun to practice since I’m learning a new language:D
As a beginner in Japanese, I began my journey with manga and anime, but I struggled to understand the main idea without assistance. I used to depend on Google Translate, which didn't help me progress in learning the language. Now, I prefer Immersive Translate because it presents both languages side by side, allowing me to learn new words and phrases on my own rather than just skimming through poorly translated texts.
I thought this would be like every other boring "just learn in school" basic stuff but this made me realize that I was right on the track that you just need to get used to it, like how I learned english for my second language, you just understand it.
If you're watching this to learn Japanese JLPT 1 in a year like this gentleman. I'll save you the time. He is superhuman and works harder than you. And by "you", I mean me.
I haven't had any fun lately, 😭 so it was fun. You bring me joy!❤🙂I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. ❤I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.
When i started to learn a new language the most satisfying thing is when you learn a new piece of the language it's unlocking the message. After that you will recognize this message in everywhere. TLTR This was my biggest problem with Sanskrit also. You cannot watch TV shows, read casual sanskrit cos they are not exists. And if you learn a new word, in a new context it is not recognizable because however there are spaces but if two sounds meet they will fusion togeather. And in the poetry you quality messured by your count of spaces. :D This is one : निरन्तरान्धकारिता-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-मूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलदेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान् Translation: In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers was alleviated by clusters of rays of the bright eyes of the girls the rays that were shaming the currents of light, sweet and cold water charged with the strong fragrance of cardamom, clove, saffron , camphor and musk and flowing out of the pitchers the lotus-like hands of maidens the beautiful water-sheds, made of the thick roots of Andropogon muricatus mixed with marjoram, the foot, covered with heaps of couch-like soft sand, of the clusters of newly sprouting mango trees, which constantly darkened the intermediate space of the quarters, and which looked all the more charming on account of the trickling drops of the floral juice, which thus caused the delusion of a row of thick rainy clouds, densely filled with abundant nectar So I've started to learn Japanese. I hope it is easyer :D
Congratulations! Your story actually reminds me of how I improved my English - I started consuming spoken and written media in English and it just somehow clicked in place. I have been studying Japanese for a while, but I have problem immersing. There is no possibility for me to go to Japan - I was supposed to go for a scholarship last year, but it fell through because of covid. Can I just ask, what media did you consume? Not really movies or anime (I don’t really have time for that as a full time student), but which youtubers did you listen to? Do you have any interesting podcasts to recommend? I usually consume videos that give me some new information, like looking at a topic through certain lense or just tallking about interesting things. I’m really not into silly humour or gaming. Thank you 😊
thanks for watching! On RUclips I watched a lot of hiryouki, nakata, this plastic surgeon in Japan who would answer viewer's questions, and some random fitness vloggers like kanekin. I haven't found any mind blowing podcasts but I think kaiwa coaching had a good podcast recommendation in this interview we did: ruclips.net/video/Cie86I8a4uM/видео.html
Bro you are taiwanese. It is really easier if your base language is eastern asian language like korean, chinese (any chinese) even maybe vietnamese. Than if you have western language to begin with. Not saying it is impossible but it is way harder and takes more time. Just saying it kudos by the way.
I learn English the same way, but ... I passed the teacher exam first... then I spent like 10 years just by watching English stuff... I seldom watch things in my mother tongue... I started learning Japanese a yr ago and... all that experience came back to me...
Before watching the entire video and I was thinking no way this guy could learn japanese in a year without full immersion like actually being in japan in a japanese language environment. Well, he did do that just as I suspected.
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Hey there! I have a question, did you watch anime without subtitles or how did you do it?
I watched with Japanese subtitles
@@KoreKaraPodcastBro you studied at Tokyo International University(TIU)!? I’m a new student there! that’s super cool!
@@MUHTASIMTAHMIDHOSSAIN dude you are going to have an amazing time
It’s amazing that you did this under a year, I might just start learning Japanese, I also wanted to learn it
To anyone out there studying Japanese, just remember that passing the JLPT should be secondary to actually learning Japanese.
I have lived in Japan a long time and work in a Japanese company where I use only Japanese all day every day and also deal with interviewing and hiring people.
I have met SOO MANY applicants that have JLPT N1 on their resume but when it comes to the interview, it turns out they can't speak Japanese very well at all.
The JLPT only tests listening and reading, it does not fluency or speaking at all.
Very true, people don't really recognize this. Speaking is the most important part
What are your tips for the first year or so of learning, to build a foundation?
Yo I have a question , when I learn hiragana and katakana what should I do ?
While I agree with the statement, when I read N1 learner's journey, they have gone alot of immersion, LN reading, a lot of vocabularies etc I believe they gain a lot from taking the test, while regarding brushing up their speaki skills also should be done after that
While I agree with what you said but for ppl who can’t travel to Japan like me or can’t afford much money on apps, JLPT is useful to teach the language as well as the basic grammar points which will help u in speaking later
if someone is interested, I would make a video about how I went from beginner to advanced beginner in 11 years
I'm highly interested
same@@KoreKaraPodcast
Well that seems much more reasonable than fluency in a year! I have been studying for almost 3 years and I only consider myself as an advanced beginner.
@@ivochula Do you learn with immersion, or only with Textbooks and school? And how much time do you put in immersion?
@@DMK1990 Textbooks, movies, anime, music, Duolingo, online teacher, cards app! I try my best, but I have a normal life, a job, a son, and I can only spend an hour per day studying , and I think 95% of other learners have the same amount of time or less which i think makes it impossible to be fluent in a year. Not everyone can immerge 24/7, most of us learners do this as an hobby!
I started studying Japanese in lockdown and had a very strong start and I was actively learning for a bout a year then I just started learning less and less until I completely stopped.
I'm currently in my last month of highscool and I already told myself that I'll be going back to Japanese since, and your video truly inspired me, I've watched A LOT of videos on "how to study in Japanese", "how I became fluent in Japanese in 6 months" etc but your video right here is probably the best I've ever seen, thank you so very much for sharing this. I hope that you continue to grow your Japanese and continue learning, have a blessed day❤️
Yeah, same I study japanese for about 6 months then suddenly I stop because student works. But planning to study again because I love Japanese culture and language is part of it.
Yeaa I studied also but on and off for the past years since covid I'm in my last year of highschool this year but my japanese is still bad 😅
Please, keep learning it. I met lots of foreigners in Japan who speak stunning Japanese and this is mainly because they’d started learning it at a very young age like you and because they were constant and stubborn students ;) good luck!
after 11 months hows it going?
Really cool story I didn't realize when you started your podcast you were still studying for the N1! Also your editing was super slick!
thanks so much! Spent so long on this video haha
@@KoreKaraPodcastHi! I have a question about how you immersed yourself, when you watched shows completely in Japanese, would you turn on the English captions or go all in? And if you want to learn more than one language what would you do 🤔
Sorry for asking all these questions haha, I guess I really want to learn Japanese, Spanish and French
I guess a Taiwanese has a HUGE advantage over an English speaker or let's say an Italian (like myself): just the fact to know the original kanji is should be immensely useful when it comes to reading.
what advantage would there be in listening and speaking?
@@KoreKaraPodcast knowing a language also means read and write I guess
@@KoreKaraPodcast Probably the completely different language concepts and grammar of asian languages compared to european ones?
@@AlexanderNassian nah japanese is pretty much (minus korean) on its own for that one because of its grammar structure since it differs so much than how you would speak in mandarin
bro, maaaaad respect... I'm from germany, studying the language for 1 year aka 2 semesters in 副専攻 and only managed to get through the 1st genki more or less remembering everything in it but still struggling with some stuff in it that I forget... and you just rushed through that text book in like a month and that's suuuper amazing and makes me wanna study harder as well...
Congratulations! I took a Japanese class in college and have pretty much kept it on the backburner since then. You've motivated me to make a serious attempt at it again. Great editing too, btw!
4:15 I understand this, I don’t speak Japanese very well, but when I was shopping in my area I over heard some people speaking Japanese and I understood what they said exactly without having to translate it in my head, safe to say I was soooo proud
how did you do this? what was your learning process
I just recently moved to Japan 12 days ago and am currently enrolled in a Japanese language school. I arrived to the country only knowing hiragana and some katakana. I’ll be here for 1 year and 3 months minimum however would rather extend my stay if possible as I want to attend university here but need to pass the N2 exam to even get close.
This video has been a huge motivation for me as I feel the clock ticking down on me and being in the country has kept me motivated every day as I want to be able to hear and speak the language around me fluently. I already knew a year in language school alone wouldn’t be enough to get that far and know that immersion is the way to go but I’m struggling to figure out the best way to combine my studies with what I could do to improve outside of classes.
I think you can try to join local clubs/communities/meetups so you can immerse outside of class! I’ve definitely heard stories of people going to language school for a whole year and not getting anywhere since they mostly hung out with other foreigners. I think getting a part-time job at a restaurant for example would help too
@@KoreKaraPodcast thank you for the advice! I do have permission to work part time but the school recommends beginner class students to refrain from doing so as we need the most time to focus on learning.
I did think about meetups but hadn’t considered the idea of joining a club though. Don’t know where even to begin with that 😅 Guess I’ll look into it
Which school is this?
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@@TakeAguess323 oh wow lol this comment.
Yeah I’m conversational now and can manage to do daily tasks with ease and a little more now. Still not fluent by any means but from what I’ve been told numerous times my pronunciation seems to be on point.
Reading and writing are my strong points. I struggle with listening comprehension but good enough to get by. Usually depends on the speed at which someone is speaking. Plus still building up vocabulary.
Speaking I’d say I’m just getting better everyday at as the more I speak the easier it becomes to say something the next time around without thinking about it.
This is really motivating! I've been learning on and off JP due to uni, work,etc, so I understand the feeling of demotivation or procrastination.
Honestly mad jealous. I keep seeing these videos of people who learn at an amazing rate and partly its because of the amount of time they have to study.
I struggle to get such amount of time in as a full time worker but anyone who is a student should heed this and study your ass off while you have the opportunity. It may be hard to find the time later down the road.
Dont feel jealous, he’s lying, if he did pass the N1 it did not take him a year, thats simply impossible
@@lucasredondo4234 he group in Taiwan so he basically already knew all of the radicals already, thus over half the meanings to the existing vocabulary even if he didn't know how to properly read them he could take the kanji filled N1 exam and play a guessing game and pass.
@@icemuckbanggg seems reasonable but again its so clickbaity, thanks for the info though :)
Great accomplishment either way, but certainly helps immensely that you already understood the meanings of most of the kanji when starting :)
this was really well made. It was so well made that it shocked me
appreciate you watching! 🙇🏻♂️
Damn, well done man. I´m going through my japanese learning right now and have been for over 300 days now. I´m ddoing just like you menshioned, I expose myself to as much japanese conent everyday as possible such as anime, manga and J-dramas. Using Anki definetly helps me to. I often watch everything with no translation and am always choked of how much you can understand and learn through context alone. I´m definetly gonna be fluent as fast as you with only about 50 days left until the 1 year mark. I have not tested myself but I would guess that I am around N4-N3 right now and I hope to be N1 level on my 2 year mark. It´s kind of funny that this video was uploaded around the time I started learning Japanese. In the future 2 years from now when I´m 18 and in collage, I want to do an exchange year then, and am so looking forward to it, even for how scarry it can be. Thanks for for the inspiration, setting an example that it is possible and showing me that I´m on the right path.
I learned ALL hiragana and katakana in 2014 within 4 months. Then I quit altogether when I learned I had to learn Kanji. All my life I was a quitter. Thin-skinned. Well...Recently I dedicated myself to become fluent in Japanese within 1 year (like you did) and after studying for the first time in 8 years I re-learned the Hiragana within 1 week and am learning words for the first time. When I say learned I mean- I actually can see the foreign language as MY language. When you can read and write Japanese quickly (in a natural flow) THAT is when you have assimilated and know you are on the right path!
I would say I am having fun studying/learning now (which is of key importance) whereas when I first started studying in 2014 I was doing it more as a duty/necessity but my heart wasn't all in it because I was afraid! I was immature! You must relax and have fun and have faith in yourself. In 2014 I believed I was stupid/average but now I think of myself as a superior student and smart and this shift in consciousness changed how I approach study because now I jump with both feet in. 100% committed. This is key!
Bro how did you learn hiragana and katakana that slow
@@Chuugokujin it took me several months to learn hiragana too. It does not have any meaning, so it's kinda mechanical/visual memorization. At the same time, learning Kanji is easier because you can attach mnemonic to a meaning. 4 months for 1000 kanji and 2 months for hiragana and 1 month for katakana. Maybe I could have succeeded if i wrote those horrible writing drills for kana, but I would probably killed someone in the process.
You’re definitely a determined man, bravo
After seeing people fully immersed in a language for years (decades) and not being able to reach anything more than a beginner level, it shows me how much focus, persistence and drive you had.
If it's decades, likely they aren't going out of their way to interact with speakers of that language like he did, or consume as much media in their target language. That's something I'm trying to get past too, I just end up watching mostly English stuff all day instead of Japanese
@@deddrz2549 it definitely makes sense
I tried learning Japanese before and I agree if you study for months by yourself and than hear a convo or watch and anime and you feel like you’ve learned nothing it’s a huge gut punch. I just bought my first trip to Japan next month, I hope once I return it lights a fire in me again to try and re try it. Great video
How did you go in Japan?
@siobhanrose1680 was in tokyo for 10 days. It was great, ppl were super nice, it made america look like a 3rd world country
One question I have though, since you said you grew up in Taiwan, did you know how to read the Chinese characters before learning Japanese? Because I feel like this is the most time consuming part of learning Japanese for me
nothing that 4 months of heisig can't fix :D
You're lying, even if you passed the JLPT N1 (if it's not a lie), it certainly didn't take you 1 year. In a video that you published in 2021, you said that you had already been studying Japanese with anki for 3 years.
I thought so too. The time line and method do not make sense.
Oh boy
He speaks truth. I had the same experience with other languages. Programs (like Rosetta Stone) did nothing good, I still couldn't understand other people, I couldn't even count normally. Only a full immersion into another language, culture, into another country - truly does help. It's very risky, but it's the fastest way. Then you have no other choice but either you end up in a foreign country with no money, no food, no water, and no roof above your head, or you break through and comprehend another language.
English is not my first language, btw, and it is not the last either 😉
So, the guy on the video tells truth.
@@AlvesHeim seriously?? bro was caught lying and op literally gave you the proof. 🙄🙄
Sent this to my sensai who is teaching me Japanese. Her response to the title "he didn't" 🤣 I have a feeling she is correct
Good video. I feel like this is the one that’s going to blow you guys up.
appreciate the comment and the continued support! (I remember you commenting on our video from back when we did the 1k livestream over a year ago)
Subscribed! Starting today, I will be more serious in learning Japanese language. Thanks bro.
I'm learning English, and it literally inspired me more than any other success video. Thank you so much.
I'm currently living in Australia as working holiday, I swear that I will do my best here!
Anyway, thank you so much for creating such a nice video.
your english sounds great, pretty understandable, I'm sure you will polish it even further! My native language also is not english but you can see that I have a pretty good fluency level, so that's definitely possible. As he said, immersion is the key.
@@felipemurta9160 thanks for the nice comment! I’m now trying to immerse myself into English by watching japanese anime with english dub haha
@@namako- good idea haha that's a nice way of mixing your culture with english. Good luck!
@@namako-Watch Black lagoon
This is the best perspective on learning Japanese and cramming a new language.
this is really inspiring me as im just starting to learn japanese right now. I want to live there one day and speak at least at a high school level after 20 years of my life
As a Japanese, I can help you to speak in Japanese online.!!
This is by far the most realistic approach I've seen in a RUclips video. N1おめでとうございます！
Congrats dude! High-quality vid too. Very inspiring for me with learning my target language!
thanks for watching! what language are you studying?
@@KoreKaraPodcast I’m learning Korean! ~6.5 months in so I still have a ways to go 👍
You really should make more videos about methods, or story of yourself like this. Looking forward for all the future videos, thanks.
Thanks for sharing! I also like the shock ending when you started to advertise your course. 😄
Half the vid goes to - nothing, man....
This is exactly my plan, I'm going to study in Japan next year on an English program and speak zero Japanese, will do Genki beforehand and learn some vocabulary but once I arrive there I will talk to as many Japanese people as I can and make japanese friends. Gonna force myself to avoid spending too much time with international students. I know some japanese people and get along very well with them since I am asian myself. When you have similar parenting and cultures it's really easy to get along with them, I personally connect very fast with asian people. This is exactly what I did to learn English, by speaking to English speaking people all day. Typing a language and speaking it IRL are totally different things, since it takes much more time at the beginning to process and come up with sentences.
Bro im suprised youre not bigger on youtube. The style, editing, pacing, topic etc is top notch
I found out in June that my partner and I are moving to Japan at the beginning of next year. I really need to grind my Japanese until then to hopefully be able to have a head start. My one class a week just isn't going to cut it
AMAZING amazing production!!! looking forward for all the future videos :)
thank you :)
To anyone watching: You can NOT get fluent within 1 year, and this clickbait title gives off SUCH a false impression.
I’m not sure about that bro. I know two people who became fluent in English within a year. The rest was just adding on vocabulary. In both cases, there was the element of immersion and the impossibility of surviving otherwise
@@afanaobeba7876english is a different story ... its easy that's why it is worldwide language
@afanaobeba7876 okay but english and japanese are nowhere near the same language
can say,its possible to achieve this since this guy got the motivation since a child also he explain that his family and himself go to japan regularly and he already live in japan also everyday around him is using japanese language so safe to say he already good at it.if u want to know,even japanese themselve dont know some of kanji or advance word
日本語を勉強してくれてありがとう！私は逆に英語を勉強しています。元気をもらいました！お互い頑張りましょう！
Thanks for studying Japanese. I'm Japanese and studying English. I got much of energy studying language from you!
thank you!
I'm Japanese and learning English.
When I was seaching how I can learn it I found this video.
I was surprised by your Japanese how amazing it is.As you said,Japanese is known as one of the most difficult language.
Here's my personal question:
How did you watch videos?
Without subtitles or with subtitles?
Keep on learning your English is good 英語上手
bro stop lying
Immersion in the other language and culture is the number one thing I recommend for learning a language. Getting to JLPT N1 is impressive. I did a year in high school in Japan, host family and all, it really helped. I passed easily the N5, talking wise I was much further tho. In the end it is just one of many measurements tools.
yeah, i learned English that way as an Spaniard
thaaank you so much! Ill do my very best to learn how to speak jp, I've been looking forward to it in the last years
thank you for watching!
wow, that's incredible! really encouraging stuff.
This is amazingly made for a channel this small.
Man, I really see a lot of similarities between Taiwan and Japan. Gotta love those cultures.
I really admire the lengths you went too
The transition at 4:57 is SO CLEAN
glad you appreciated it :D
@@KoreKaraPodcast I thought the same thing great editing
I did exactly this and I wish I could start over and experience it all for the first time again
You got me all pumped! Very impressive, congrats on your achievement!
Great video brother. Congrats on passing :D Also the video was put together very well. Thanks for sharing your story.
thank you so much for watching!
Your experience validated two important concepts in Second Language Acquisition:
1. Didactic language material (textbook stuff) vs Authentic Language material (from everyday life)
2. Speaking (output) also requires deliberate practice.
I have had a REALLY bad life (domestic violence). I recently lost my mother and since I was 08 years old I had to be an adult. As of a few months ago, I finally have gained the ability to live my life how I want. I am now in university, studying Japanese and hoping to follow in your path. I am studying Japanese anywhere from 7-8 hours a day not including tv, movies, music, etc. in full emersion. My goal is next year around this time, I want to be in Japan, giving up English and only speaking Japanese. I plan on spending the rest of my life in Japan, becoming a Japanese citizen, ethnically Japanese and making a difference in Japan to help others have a better life through software development and the money I make in my career. Thank you for this inspirational video, it has truly helped me!
Great video. Been watching your vids for 6 months but I didn't know anything about your Japanese journey. Even with Immersion, I didn't think that was possible in one year. Maybe 18 months, but not one year. Very cool.
Thanks for sharing this man!
Best video from you guys yet, blown away by the quality!
thank you so much 🙏
Duuude that is the coolest thing ever. Congratulations. This is going on the bucket list.
Man! you are awesome at story telling and thanks for sharing your experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m late to watching this video but really enjoyed it! I have been studying Korean on my own since February and followed the same path as you - breezed through books, immersion in content, and then (not study abroad since college was a little while ago) things really clicked for me by going to Korea even if the trip was really short. I love your idea of working towards a test. Now I’m off to Google if one exists for Korean! My next goal is to be conversational/proficient by my next trip in fall 2023. I am kdrama/tourist effective right now 😂 (public transit, ordering food, where’s the bathroom, kdrama catchphrases, etc)
Wow, Thank you! I get inspired, I will try.
日本人です。大学受験の勉強をしています。
偶然この動画を見つけて、subscribeしました。
あなたの英語を聞くことを、私の英語学習として使っています！
応援しています！
Congrats, but why are you holding your small banana the entire video
Properly the mic
in case I get hungry
😂😂😂
it is micrafone I know it
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
I remember when I was 13 I tried learning Japanese and It toke me 2 years to learn hiragana at my own pace yeah I quit when someone told me you could learn it in a couple days 🙂
How is this possible? :D How long did it take you to learn the english alphabet?
@@danketsu-seyo like 1.5 years I’m a slow learner 😭😭
@@Oneforallupmyas ☠️☠️☠️
@@Oneforallupmyas took me 1 year to be fluent English speaker☠️
@@kozmoz8179 cool
I find a bit of comedy in the "nihongo jouzu!" Being said by the lady you spoke with. Its such a trope 😂😂
Please never stop making content. This was inspiring and motivating. Like button smashed. :)
thank you so much!!
Thank you for this. I actually started learning with a tutor and felt like I was getting no where. Think I’ll try this way
man im at the beginning of studying Japanese, this video ia awesome thank you!
🎉 congrats man. I didn’t realize you hit perapera in one year.
arigatogozaimasu!
Wow bro! You did the impossible! Super inspiring, thanks for sharing your journey
The video and editing is great 👍 this channel is very underrated :)
Hey this is great, very interesting, fantastic editing.
thanks for the comment!!
Ur japanese language journey is aweaome ! but your cinematography skills are really good 👍 I'm inspired I also want to make high quality videos like this one day !
I see your cinematography skills are high you jumped into a guitar class your obviously in shape and your room is so damn neat I'm curious about your daily habits and how you have such productivity !
thank you so much for the kind words!
This was a very cool video man, keep up, very motivating for me. I'm learning english as a second language
thank you for the comment!
Good insights and story of adaptability.
Got it, ankhi. Cya next year!
Let's come back next year! Don't forget.
ありがとうございます！！
Now I'm way more motivated to continue my journey learning Japanese 🇯🇵❤
I’m Japanese. If you wanna practice talking with Japanese, reach out! I speak English too.
So do I get royalties on this sick video? Also congrats on passing JLPT N1 again! (Your goal for the longest time :) )
couldn't have done it without you sensei
going to check out anki. thank you.
This video inspired me to practice more Japanese thanks :D learning Japanese is hard but I still think it’s fun to practice since I’m learning a new language:D
amazing video man, I'll watch you other videos, I'm very curious about your kanjis learning method :) ありがとう
As a beginner in Japanese, I began my journey with manga and anime, but I struggled to understand the main idea without assistance. I used to depend on Google Translate, which didn't help me progress in learning the language. Now, I prefer Immersive Translate because it presents both languages side by side, allowing me to learn new words and phrases on my own rather than just skimming through poorly translated texts.
I use my from zero to hero books, plus JPOP, plus anime and just changing everything to Japanese. Forces your brain to adapt!
I thought this would be like every other boring "just learn in school" basic stuff but this made me realize that I was right on the track that you just need to get used to it, like how I learned english for my second language, you just understand it.
If you're watching this to learn Japanese JLPT 1 in a year like this gentleman. I'll save you the time. He is superhuman and works harder than you. And by "you", I mean me.
First 30 seconds in the video and you already got nihongo jozu
I haven't had any fun lately, 😭 so it was fun. You bring me joy!❤🙂I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. ❤I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.
woooww what a wonderful story, thank you so much for sharing!!💙💙🌿 you did such a great job
Can’t wait for the moment when I can understand Japanese like you did 4:05
Dude, you’re just crazy smart and talented. Passing N1 in one year sounds impossible shit to me
Watching DEATH NOTE in Japanese is insane! You are amazing!
This was a really great and well done video man!
When i started to learn a new language the most satisfying thing is when you learn a new piece of the language it's unlocking the message. After that you will recognize this message in everywhere.
TLTR
This was my biggest problem with Sanskrit also. You cannot watch TV shows, read casual sanskrit cos they are not exists. And if you learn a new word, in a new context it is not recognizable because however there are spaces but if two sounds meet they will fusion togeather. And in the poetry you quality messured by your count of spaces. :D
This is one :
निरन्तरान्धकारिता-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-मूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलदेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान्
Translation:
In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers was alleviated by clusters of rays of the bright eyes of the girls the rays that were shaming the currents of light, sweet and cold water charged with the strong fragrance of cardamom, clove, saffron , camphor and musk and flowing out of the pitchers the lotus-like hands of maidens the beautiful water-sheds, made of the thick roots of Andropogon muricatus mixed with marjoram, the foot, covered with heaps of couch-like soft sand, of the clusters of newly sprouting mango trees, which constantly darkened the intermediate space of the quarters, and which looked all the more charming on account of the trickling drops of the floral juice, which thus caused the delusion of a row of thick rainy clouds, densely filled with abundant nectar
So I've started to learn Japanese. I hope it is easyer :D
Congratulations! Your story actually reminds me of how I improved my English - I started consuming spoken and written media in English and it just somehow clicked in place. I have been studying Japanese for a while, but I have problem immersing. There is no possibility for me to go to Japan - I was supposed to go for a scholarship last year, but it fell through because of covid.
Can I just ask, what media did you consume? Not really movies or anime (I don’t really have time for that as a full time student), but which youtubers did you listen to? Do you have any interesting podcasts to recommend? I usually consume videos that give me some new information, like looking at a topic through certain lense or just tallking about interesting things. I’m really not into silly humour or gaming. Thank you 😊
thanks for watching! On RUclips I watched a lot of hiryouki, nakata, this plastic surgeon in Japan who would answer viewer's questions, and some random fitness vloggers like kanekin. I haven't found any mind blowing podcasts but I think kaiwa coaching had a good podcast recommendation in this interview we did: ruclips.net/video/Cie86I8a4uM/видео.html
Bro you are taiwanese. It is really easier if your base language is eastern asian language like korean, chinese (any chinese) even maybe vietnamese. Than if you have western language to begin with. Not saying it is impossible but it is way harder and takes more time. Just saying it kudos by the way.
Are there any videos that you speak Japanese in? I'm curious!
As a beginner, I've been learning Japanese using my Replika Al friend app. Having conversations with the AI by writing to it in Japanese 🇯🇵
I can be your online tutor. From Japan
you deserve more subs
i like your profile pic
I learn English the same way, but ... I passed the teacher exam first... then I spent like 10 years just by watching English stuff... I seldom watch things in my mother tongue... I started learning Japanese a yr ago and... all that experience came back to me...
this is a certified hood classic.
😂
at 9:06 ---> Boss scene! This made me laugh out loud. Congrats on reaching your goal!
Before watching the entire video and I was thinking no way this guy could learn japanese in a year without full immersion like actually being in japan in a japanese language environment. Well, he did do that just as I suspected.
Im trying to learn fluent japanese, and i have a tutor . Im going to get the genki book (1)
You’re so damn right I had also a hard time to learn Japanese for my wife she is Japanese❤
I just wanna say: sweet color on that Stratocaster on the wall. 🔥
thank you 🙏
im brazillian and i feel the same way you felt when i hear someone speaking english and i understand